Classification Categories
Kingdom Characteristics
Evolution
Linnaeus
Misc.
100
The most broad classification group
What is Domain
100
The kingdom that includes bacteria that can live in very extreme environments such as sulfur pits
What is Archaebacteria
100
He believed in the Law of Use and Disuse and the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Who is Lamark
100
The name given to Linnaeus's system of classification
What is binomial nomenclature
100
The kind of analysis that focuses on the order in which derived characteristics appeared in organisms?
What is cladistic analysis or cladogram
200
The two classification categories that make up the scientific name.
What is genus and species
200
The kingdom that includes all multicellular heterotrophs without cell walls
What is animalia
200
The man credited with first stating the modern theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin
200
The part of the scientific name that is capitalized
What is genus
200
In biology the type of trait that arose in an ancestor and is passed along to its descendents
What is a derived character
300
The classification group made up of organism that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring
What is species
300
The kingdom that includes multicellular autotrophs with a cell wall of cellulose
What is Plantae
300
The name given to the concept that the organisms with the best adaptations will survive and reproduce
What is survival of the fittest or Natural Selection
300
All organisms were placed in one of these two kingdoms during Linnaeus's time
What is Plantae or Animalia
300
The kingdom that Eubacteria and Archaebacteria were previously classified in
What is Monera
400
The kingdom that includes multicellular heterotrophs with a cell wall of chitin
What is Fungi
400
The islands that Darwin traveled to which helped form his theory of evolution
What are the Galapogus
400
The number of categories in Linnaeus's system of classification
What is 7
400
Structures that are similar but may have different functions
What homologous structures
500
The classification group made up of Archaebacteria, Eubacteria and Eukarya
What is Domain
500
The kingdom that includes mostly unicelluar autotrophs and heterotrophs
What is Protista
500
Darwin noticed the differences of these body parts on finches which helped develop his theory
What are beaks
500
Linnaeus's system of classification eliminates the use of these names that could be different in different countries
What are common names
500
Structures that no longer have a purpose
What are vestigial
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